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Quotes
My job is being a musician [...] I just make
films for fun, really.
I'm bored with music between 1955 and 1980.
I'm completely bored. I can't listen to a rock and roll record. I can't
do it. I would rather listen to hogs screwing.
I do my best work when I
am in pain and turmoil.
I
exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
I
once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything
useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a
monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any
admirable human qualities. I failed history.
I
think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours.
What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then
dinner and a movie.
It
is my destiny to be the king of pain.
It
takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Love
is stronger than justice.
Success
always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of
friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
There's
no religion but sex and music.
It was quite something. My wife saw it, too.
At first I thought it was her with one of the kids until I reached over
and I realised that she was still in bed with me - on seeing the ghosts
of a woman and a child in his bedroom
The geniuses of music, like Bach and Miles
Davis, used silence beautifully; they were not about using as many notes
as possible. They knew that playing almost nothing can be the most
elegant and eloquent thing to do.
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